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The Impact of Internet and Videogame Use on College Student Development

Creator:: Calhoun, Benjamin W.
Abstract:: In recent decades, there has been a tremendous change in the college student experience. In many ways this change has been driven by developments in technology, which have in turn changed the way students conduct research, socialize, and recreate. This thesis seeks to gain an understanding as to how Internet...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Calhoun for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in College Student Services

Theodore Dwight Weld's use of the judicial motif in American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

Creator:: Trudeau, Justin Thomas
Abstract:: This thesis examines the rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld's American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. Published anonymously in 1839, Weld's publication became the longest antislavery tract in American history. It left its mark on the abolitionist movement itself and future antislavery literary works most notably Uncle...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Justin Thomas Trudeau

Maria Susanna Cummins' "The Lamplighter" : a revisioning of a sentimental writer of the nineteenth-century United States as rhetor, social critic, and feminist

Creator:: Steinert, Laura
Abstract:: Within The Lamplighter, a novel written in 1854, Maria Susanna Cummins defines a version of the sentimental novel that significantly differs from the prescriptive analysis male critics have offered for the genre. This thesis argues that feminist theory and recent rhetorical theory have caused a critical paradigm shift that has...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Maria Susanna Cummins' "The Lamplighter" : a revisioning of a

Brenda Ueland : Early Feminist and Writing Theorist

Creator:: Firmin, Mary Ann
Abstract:: Brenda Ueland is a writer whose most noted work is a book which explains her theory about how to write. She also published an autobiography and a co11ection of essays as well as achieving some notoriety as a magazine writer to the twenties and thirties. Ueland's writing theory is based...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 24, 1891 in a house on the south shore of Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Clara 71). The

Innovative Coaching in Intercollegiate Athletics : Advocating for Cultural Responsiveness

Creator:: Thompson, Mitchell D.
Abstract:: It has been established that intercollegiate sport is an important social institution for student athletes of color in the United States (Coakley, 2012). White intercollegiate coaches have a prominent influence on the academic, athletic, social and emotional development of student athletes and therefore must be tuned into variation in cultural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the discipline are related. A theory provides insights into a specific issue or problem (Calhoun

Chasing the Limelight : An Exploratory, Grounded Theory Multivariate Analysis of Academic Prestige in Sociology

Creator:: Farris, Tucker D.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to provide exploratory understanding of the nature of academic prestige in the field of sociology, and to provide insights into the history of the discipline. The primary research question was: does academic prestige act as a factor in controlling academic knowledge production in the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Calhoun wrote that sociology was akin to a “archipelago of poorly connected islands of specialization

Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

Creator:: Singh, Jaspal K., 1951-
Abstract:: Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus of feminist studies in the western world since the Victorian Era. When Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892, she "met with consternation of disapproving males ...[and] it was virtually ignored for thirty years" (Kasmer 1)....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: was virtually ignored for thirty years" (Kasmer 1). Gilman herself had gone through a "rest cure

Differences Between Public Attention and Understanding of School Budget Formats Published in Newspapers

Creator:: Mason, Sue Cockeram
Abstract:: This thesis study attempts to differentiate between attention and understanding as separate phases of communication theory. To do this, additional analysis was made of data already gathered from a random sample of Oregonians by the Survey Research Center at Oregon State University. An additional objective was to determine the role...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . To do this, additional analysis was made of data already gathered from a random sample of

Finding Fantasy : Three Newspapers Tell the Story of Kip Kinkel and Thurston High School

Creator:: Wood, Josie MaryAnne Soules
Abstract:: On May 21, 1998 Kip Kinkel drove to Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. Kinkel killed two students and wounded another twenty-two students. He killed his parents the day before. The shootings at Thurston High School came on the heels of a number of prominent school shootings and Kip Kinkel...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: killed his parents the day before. The shootings at Thurston High School came on the heels of a number

When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

Creator:: Finch, Kurstin
Abstract:: This thesis presents an analysis of seventeen contemporary blockbuster films in which women kill people. The purpose of the analysis is to discover the "frames" with which film producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors portray women in film. The thesis first establishes the model in use in the analysis: Entman's model...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Contemporary Film. Abstract approved: _____ a..v-)-_-:::::: _ Susan Shaw This thesis presents an analysis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The Impact of Internet and Videogame Use on College Student Development

Theodore Dwight Weld's use of the judicial motif in American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

Maria Susanna Cummins' "The Lamplighter" : a revisioning of a sentimental writer of the nineteenth-century United States as rhetor, social critic, and feminist

Brenda Ueland : Early Feminist and Writing Theorist

Innovative Coaching in Intercollegiate Athletics : Advocating for Cultural Responsiveness

Chasing the Limelight : An Exploratory, Grounded Theory Multivariate Analysis of Academic Prestige in Sociology

Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

Differences Between Public Attention and Understanding of School Budget Formats Published in Newspapers

Finding Fantasy : Three Newspapers Tell the Story of Kip Kinkel and Thurston High School

When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

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